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Mission Statement

To empower and educate consumers about better alternatives for low-environmental impact living.

Purpose

Sometimes things we use every day can be toxic to our health or the environment. Without a clean environment, life on earth, human or otherwise, is unsustainable. Green Inside and Out seeks to educate people on how best to protect themselves and the environment through their daily choices, for the benefit of all.

Solidarity Statement

Green Inside and Out seeks to educate people on how to best protect themselves and the environment through their daily choices for the benefit of all the people they care about.

We seek to create an organizational culture that values people of all racial / ethnic / religious / gender identities, and that is based on organizational principles of respect, integrity, equity, justice and inclusiveness. We maintain a commitment to welcome diversity in staff, volunteers, and audiences.

Who We Are

Mission Statement

To empower and educate consumers about better alternatives for low-environmental impact living.

Purpose

Sometimes things we use every day can be toxic to our health or the environment. Without a clean environment, life on earth, human or otherwise, is unsustainable. Green Inside and Out seeks to educate people on how best to protect themselves and the environment through their daily choices, for the benefit of all.

Solidarity Statement

Green Inside and Out seeks to educate people on how to best protect themselves and the environment through their daily choices for the benefit of all the people they care about.

We seek to create an organizational culture that values people of all racial / ethnic / religious / gender identities, and that is based on organizational principles of respect, integrity, equity, justice and inclusiveness. We maintain a commitment to welcome diversity in staff, volunteers, and audiences.

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Our Green Team

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Beth Fiteni

Founder & Director

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Beth Fiteni is the Founder and Director of Green Inside and Out. Beth has a Masters Degree in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School, as well as twenty years of experience working in the environmental movement for non-profit organizations in DC and NY. She has worked at Renewable Energy Long Island, Sustainability Institute at Molloy College, and Beyond Pesticides, through which she coordinated educational programs, energy policy work groups, and national conferences. She is the author of the book, "The Green Wardrobe Guide - Finding EcoChic Fashions that Look Great and Help Save the Planet."

She founded Green Inside and Out in 2011. Fiteni was awarded the LI Sierra Club Environmentalist of the Year in 2017, the Woman of Distinction Award by the Town of Oyster Bay in 2011, the EPA’s Environmental Quality award in 2010 for her work in co-creating educational materials on children’s environmental health (Ribbet.org), and the LI Business News’ Top 40 Under 40 Award in 2008.

Beth has served as a Board member of the US Green Building Council LI Chapter, Prevention is the Cure, Slow Food North Shore, Vision LI, Friends of Huntington Farmlands, and the Huntington Clean Energy Task Force.

Beth offered a TEDx Talk at Adelphi University in March 2018 entitled, "The Toxic Talk - Your Power Over Pollutants." She is a trainee of Climate Reality, an organization formed by former Vice President Al Gore, and lectures regularly all over Long Island on “non-toxic, energy-efficient, green living,” in both English and Spanish. She has been featured in media outlets such as News 12, Fios 1, WNBC Channel 4, Newsday, and the Long Islander.

Beth is an active founding member of the LI Organics Council which focuses on composting and waste reduction efforts.

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Faith Keller

Head of Communications

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Jhonnathan Florez

Podcast Co-Producer

Board Members

  • Courtney Bozic, Green Fleets Consulting - Treasurer
  • Dan Busi, U.S. Green Building Council - Secretary
  • Rob DiGiovanni, Atlantic Marine Conservation Society (AMSEAS)
  • Christina Martins, Ross School
  • Robert Meinke, Greener Country
  • Carl Vogel, Vogelbilt

Advisory Board & Mentors

  • Sr. Jeanne Clark, Homecoming Farm
  • Al Harsch, Everest Solar
  • Katerina Hadjandreas, 'Of Counsel'
  • Karen Miller, Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition
  • Tara Schneider, Town of Hempstead
  • Laura Weinberg, Great Neck Breast Cancer Coalition

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Green Inside and Out (GIAO) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Long Island, NY and supported by your donations.

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